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SEGUIN — Police were searching Saturday for a shooter who critically wounded a Seguin resident in a dispute late Friday night.

Seguin Police Detective Sgt. Aaron Seidenberger released few details Saturday of an investigation into a shooting that occurred in the 900 block of Anderson Street at 11:18 p.m.

Officers who hurried to answer a report of shots fired at a disturbance arrived to find a 20-year-old black male lying in the roadway with a gun shot wound to the head.

Seguin Fire Department paramedics treated the young man at the scene and had him flown to the trauma center at University Hospital in San Antonio.

Seidenberger and other detectives sealed off the street and worked all night, the detective said.

“The scene went a good length of the entire street,” Seidenberger said. “We walk every inch of it, step by step, taking notes, measurements and looking for evidence.”

Police aren’t saying what evidence they may have uncovered.

Seidenberger did not release the victim’s name Saturday, but the officer did say the victim was in critical condition at mid-afternoon.

“This case is currently under investigation,” Seidenberger said. “Due to the sensitivity of this investigation and out of respect for the family the victim’s name is not being released at this time.”

The victim is reportedly a Seguin native who lives in Waelder and has relatives here.

Friday night’s shooting is the second in Seguin this year.

On July 29 in Starcke Park East, the occupants of a car reported men in another vehicle drove up to them, got out of their car and fired a number of shots into their vehicle.

Of four Hispanic men in the targeted car, two were wounded — one in the arm and the other in the leg.

The victims in that incident were uncooperative with police, but investigators believe that shooting was gang-related.

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